Journal

You must keep a course journal (diary) in a note book. Keep a separate
notebook for your lecture notes.

Purpose:

The general purpose of a journal is to document your work and your
collaborations. If anything goes wrong, it can help you reconstruct the
past and convince others of your position.

For this course, the journal is to help you manage your partnership. You
must document every meeting: its purpose, duration, accomplishments,
failures, agreements.

First Page:

The first page of your journal is dedicated to information about your
partner. You should enter the following information on this page: name,
address, (cell) phone, email address and optionally a screen name if you
wish to use an IM tool. (Do not use IM to conduct pair programming
sessions.) Put nothing else on this page.

Projects:

Create a new cover page for each project. Enter on this page the title of
the project, your process plan, and time estimate (in minutes) for each
step of the process. Create a conclusion page for each project. Record on
the page how many meetings you conducted and how much time (in minutes)
you actually spent on the project. Note: you won't get credit for accurate
time estimates. For your own sake, you should be as honest as you can with
these estimates, so that you learn to estimate how much time real project
work will consume.

Meetings:

Create a new page for each meeting. You must schedule (when/where) each
meeting at the end of the previous meeting; start with scheduling when you
agree to partner. Ideally, you should block six regular meeting hours per
week.

The first three lines of each meeting page must record the following:

when and where you met (entered during previous meeting)

when and where you will meet next

when you stopped the meeting

At the end of a day of a meeting, write down what you accomplished during
the meeting and any other thoughts you find worthwhile.

If your partner doesn't show up for the meeting, make a note. Also record
what actions you undertook to reach your partner. If you sent email, print
a copy and glue it into your journal.